A Proof-of-Trust Consensus Protocol for Enhancing Accountability in Crowdsourcing Services

• Published in: IEEE transactions on services computing Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 429 - 445
• Main Authors: Zou, Jun, Ye, Bin, Qu, Lie, Wang, Yan, Orgun, Mehmet A., Li, Lei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.05.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Accountability; Algorithms; Arbitration; Bitcoin; Blockchain; byzantine agreement; consensus; Contracts; Crowdsourcing; Cryptography; Elections; Fault tolerance; PoS; PoT; PoW; Protocols; Scalability; Service industries; Trustworthiness

Incorporating accountability mechanisms in online services requires effective trust management and immutable, traceable source of truth for transaction evidence. The emergence of the blockchain technology brings in high hopes for fulfilling most of those requirements. However, a major challenge is t...